If Ayn Rand had been imprisoned, would she have written much finer works?

Answer 1

We'll never know, but an interesting thought!

Fountainhead one of my all time faves!

Answer 2

Since I consider the works of Ayn Rand to be trash, I suspect prison couldn't have done much, if any, harm to her works.

"No better way to talk about Objectivists, really, except as fans of Ayn Rand. God knows the philosophy isn't tenable enough to be considered livable, and the only reason I balk at calling them a religion is because they'd bulk tiny against far more humane beliefs. Calvinist Christianity had more going for it than Objectivism.

I've never liked Ayn Rand. Perhaps hate is the wrong word for what I feel -- too emotional. Despise would be better. I despise what the woman stands for, and what she made herself into.

Rand was a novelist and self-styled thinker who promoted a philosophy she titled "Objectivism." She wrote two major novels and a whole slew of minor works of both fiction and nonfiction, but her major impact has not been literary; rather, social.

I can sum up what's wrong with Objectivism in one sentence: Objectivism is a philosophy by, and for, the sociopathic at heart. It is not even a true philosophy, but a method of justification, from which people can draw excuses to support their actions."

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Answer 3

Or none at all. "What if??" She was an amazing writer even without the prison walls.

Answer 4

I'd like to think so.